Common Law Marriage Affidavit: Fill & Download for Free

Girlfriends and fiancés would be treated the same, which means that they don't get any official notifications. As chair of the Family Readiness/Support Group, I have had to explain this many times to irate and confused women when they discovered that they would not be first (or last) for official notifications. If a soldier is unmarried, parents get notified and then it is up to them how they notify anyone else.Soldiers do not notify their command of every girlfriend they have, it is only once they become legally married that records are updated. You can't contact someone who doesn't exist.Since someone asked in comments:Common law spouses may or may not be recognized. A lot depends on whether or not they have registered their spouse in DEERS (Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System.) I'm going to note here that as a spouse, or dependent as we are commonly known, you only exists if you are in DEERS and this goes for children too. In order to have a common law marriage recognized the following must occur:Local legal authority attesting to the apparent legality based on the documentation and that it was entered into a state that recognizes common law marriages. Must have bills showing that they live at the same address, bank statements, rental agreement documentation, tax papers, water bill, electric bill, and three notarized affidavits from people that knows they are in the community and resides together to include dates.DEERS RAPIDS CAC Support Office Frequently Asked QuestionsFrankly, it's probably easier to go down to the courthouse and actually get married than provide all the paperwork necessary for a common law marriage to be recognized.Some comments have mentioned DD93, if you are interested in a long, detailed, and very exciting video produced by the Dept of Defense.DD93

No. The bill in Oklahoma makes it so that the state only accepts marriage certificates issued by clergy and affidavits of common law marriage for registration, i.e., the clerks don't have to issue marriage licenses to people they don't think should have them, like homosexuals. It doesn't stop people from getting married, even same sex couples. There will probably be clergy who are open to marrying same sex couples who will marry them. I'm waiting for the drive through chapels to start popping up.

I have notarized a few Common Law Marriage Affidavits. Colorado statutory law does not specifically address common law marriage, so the common law of England applies.When Colorado Territory was formed in 1861, the legislature passed a law, CRS 2–4–211 Common Law of England, to receive the common law of England, as of the year 1607 (the founding of Jamestown Colony, Virginia), as the foundation of Colorado law.It is not crazy, just unusual, and a part of our legal history, based on English law from over 400 years ago, before the Pilgrims landed in 1620.I wrote a blog article on this topic at English Common Law for Notaries - Notary Colorado Springs